Botany Bay Bike Ride – Bird Photos – 11 September 2019

After the bird survey along The Greenway, I cycled to Landing Lights Wetland, where I met up with Digi Dave. After looking to see what birdlife was around, we set off on our bike along the cycleway around the Botany Bay foreshore to Sans Souci, and then crossed Captain Cook Bridge and continued along the cycleway to Taren Point Foreshore Reserve.

This was a pleasant ride, with plenty of opportunities to stop and photograph some of the birds that we passed. Here are some photos. First, at Landing Lights Wetland at the start –

The second photo of these Pied Stilts shows why they are called “stilts” – look at their long legs. The next photos shows a Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike –

Further along, near Sans Souci – I spotted an Eastern Curlew.

We then crossed the Captain Cook Bridge. After a short ride through some streets we tuned off along a new cycleway that entered the Taren Point Foreshore Reserve. We continued a little further to an old Oyster Farm. A Galah was grazing –

Offshore was an artificial island. I think it is a nesting area for birds.

We then started back. We stopped at the small beach at the Foreshore Reserve. There was a Pied Oystercatcher –

And another Eastern Curlew (or perhaps the same one had flown over). Here it has just caught small crab –

We then crossed back over here bridge and continued along the cycleway back to Barton Park and the Landing Lights Wetland. We spent our remaining time photographing the birds there.

Willie Wagtail with Butterfly

Superb Fairywren

Superb Fairywren

And back at Landing Lights Wetland –

Pied Stilts

White-faced Heron